Original scientific paper

ORIGINS OF THE WEST EUROPEAN EDUCATION

Marko Pranjić orcid.org/0000-0001-7072-0300 ; Hrvatski studiji, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Abstract

Education as a central term and the most eminent content of
the educational science researches was the reason that many scholars snatched deep for the past. It occurs in the case when the beginnings of the educational contents are being investigated before the very creation of the term of education in the first representative literary work of the West European civilization, the one assigned to Homer –Iliad and Odyssey, to emphasize its influence on
supplemental Greek thought and on i.e. ‘heliocentric culture circle’, the west European one that includes Croatian educational tradition. The research is founded on initiative Greek culture-educational form paideia – rearing of a child and on its crucial content: service as wet-nurse (trofe), custom (ethos), exellence (arete), that which is in habitual practice (nomos), low – rule of conduct (logos), citizen rights (politeia), idea semblance (idea), glory (klea), prudence (sofrosine). In a nutshell, the research deals with genesis of the key
pedagogical terms and their basic meaning in the times of the Early Greek Antique, i.e. in Homer’s works, applying diachronic methodical procedure in order to create platform for the further studies of in Late Greek Antique literary works as Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes and Thucydides, and later pass onto the consideration of the educational terms and their contents in the times of the great Greek educators and the educational systems as Socrates, Plato, Isocrates, Xenophon and Demosthenes. This should serve
as the frame and the platform for the further studies of the pedagogical thoughts and the educational practice in Roman and Early Christianity Times, and afterwards in the circle of certain West European ethnic groups (Frank- German, Anglo-Saxon and Slavic) according to the principles of synchronic methodical procedure.

Keywords

paideia (rearing of a child); trofe (service as wet-nurse); ethos (custom); arete (exellence), nomos (that which is in abitual practice); logos (low – rule of conduct); politeia (citizen rights); idea (semblance; glory (klea); prudence (sofrosine)

Hrčak ID:

39999

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/39999

Publication date:

22.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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